LXIV.

_Dives implorat guttam._ Luc. xvi. 24.

O mihi si digito tremat et tremat unica summo

Gutta! o si flammas mulceat una meas!

Currat opum quocunque volet levis unda mearum;

Una mihi haec detur gemmula, Dives ero.

_Dives asking a drop._

A drop, one drop! how sweetly one faire drop

Would tremble on my pearle-tipt finger's top!

My wealth is gone: O, goe it where it will,

Spare this one iewell, I'le be Dives still. CR.

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